Red Scare
President Woodrow Wilson's World War I pledge to make the world safe for democracy was severely compromised on the home front by the red scare of 1919–1920. With its xenophobia...
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Red Scare
The Red Scare of 1919-1920 was the first, but not the last, widespread outbreak of anti-communist sentiment in U.S. history. In a national panic over alleged foreign-inspired subversion, peo...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
THE CHINA TRADE (The Wall Street Journal, New York)
China's acrobats may be famous for their contortions, but U.S.
politicians are close ...
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More than 80 years after Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston, they still inspire impassioned debate about whether they were guilty of the murders of two men during a 1920 p...
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They are in shampoos, toothpaste, deodorant, contact lenses, lipstick, eyeliner, mascara, juice, cereal, pastry, coffee creamer, vitamins, and many, many other products we use daily......
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On top of her many overlapping sex and love affairs, Lillian Hellman also once got married—and when she did, her biographer Deborah Martinson writes, “As was the custom, she left work t...
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On top of her many overlapping sex and love affairs, Lillian Hellman also once got married—and when she did, her biographer Deborah Martinson writes, “As was the custom, she left work ...
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Red Scare
Red Scare
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